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Eight Ghosts
The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories
By Sarah Perry, Andrew Hurley, Mark Haddon, Kamila Shamsie, Stuart Evers, Kate Clanchy, Jeanette Winterson and Max Porter
Contributions by Andrew Martin and Katherine Davey
Published by English Heritage
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
Eight ghost stories by contemporary writers, set at and inspired by English Heritage properties; followed by record of reported ghostly activity at English Heritage sites.
Eight authors were given the freedom of their chosen English Heritage site, from medieval castles to a Cold War nuclear bunker. Immersed in the past and chilled by rumors of hauntings, they channeled their darker imaginings into a series of extraordinary new ghost stories. Following these stories by the eight contemporary writers, is a section by Andrew Martin on ghost stories and the sites that inspired them, and following that a section on accounts of strange happenings and sightings at a selections of English Heritage properties, often as recorded and related in interviews with site staff.
Eight authors were given the freedom of their chosen English Heritage site, from medieval castles to a Cold War nuclear bunker. Immersed in the past and chilled by rumors of hauntings, they channeled their darker imaginings into a series of extraordinary new ghost stories. Following these stories by the eight contemporary writers, is a section by Andrew Martin on ghost stories and the sites that inspired them, and following that a section on accounts of strange happenings and sightings at a selections of English Heritage properties, often as recorded and related in interviews with site staff.
Product Details
- Publisher: English Heritage (August 18, 2026)
- Length: 168 pages
- ISBN13: 9781917564038
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